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In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
A 1923 version of the Charles Dickens classic with Russell Thorndike playing Scrooge.
When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
In Scotland an orphan competes with a prince for the chief's daughter and saves her from a wicked duke.
A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane
'Man shelters from storm in old hour used by diamond smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)
The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with the wife of a notorious criminal.
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
'Ruined stockbroker blamed for killing crooking financier who lured his wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
A British concert musical film directed by Edwin Greenwood
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'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)
